build: refactor to check even when package.json files have not changed

Author: Planeshifter

.github/workflows/lint_changed_files.yml

@@ -152,33 +152,34 @@ jobs:
           update_package_json_directories="${root}/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/_tools/package-json/scripts/update_directories"
           update_package_json_gypfile="${root}/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/_tools/package-json/scripts/update_gypfile"
 
+          # Lint changed package.json files:
           files=$(echo "${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.files }}" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep 'package\.json$' | grep -v 'datapackage\.json$' | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/ $//')
           if [ -n "${files}" ]; then
             echo "Linting package.json files that have changed..."
             printf "${files}" | "${lint_package_json}" --split=" "
-
-            # Check if metadata fields need to be updated:
-            dirs=$(dirname ${files})
-            needs_changes=0
-            for dir in ${dirs}; do
-              echo "Checking package.json in ${dir}..."
-              "${update_package_json_directories}" "${dir}"
-              "${update_package_json_gypfile}" "${dir}"
-              if [[ `git status --porcelain` ]]; then
-                echo "::error::Package.json in ${dir} needs updates to directories and/or gypfile fields"
-                git diff
-                needs_changes=1
-              fi
-            done
-
-            # Exit with failure if any needed changes were detected:
-            if [ $needs_changes -eq 1 ]; then
-              exit 1
-            fi
           else
             echo "No package.json files to lint."
           fi
 
+          # Check if metadata fields need to be updated in package.json files of affected packages:
+          dirs=$(echo "${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.files }}" | tr ' ' '\n' | xargs dirname | sort -u)
+          needs_changes=0
+          for dir in ${dirs}; do
+            echo "Checking package.json in ${dir}..."
+            "${update_package_json_directories}" "${dir}"
+            "${update_package_json_gypfile}" "${dir}"
+            if [[ `git status --porcelain` ]]; then
+              echo "::error::Package.json in ${dir} needs updates to directories and/or gypfile fields"
+              git diff
+              needs_changes=1
+            fi
+          done
+
+          # Exit with failure if any needed changes were detected:
+          if [ $needs_changes -eq 1 ]; then
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
       # Lint REPL help files...
       - name: 'Lint REPL help files'
         if: success() || failure()